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[Horst H. von Brand]

Thomas J. Baker <tjb at unh.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:28 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/21/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:30:25 -0400
> > > > "Thomas J. Baker" <tjb at unh.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > FWIW, I just downloaded the koji nm build from this morning and it
> > > > > doesn't help. NM wireless is busted. Wired works fine though.
> > > >
> > > > In what way are you seeing 'busted'?  Dan just fixed a bug that would
> > > > cause a traceback when trying to use wireless without a wired device
> > > > plugged in, are you seeing something different?
> > > >
> > > Yeah.  NM appears to think there are no wireless interfaces: the
> > > "Wireless Networks" option (right click on NM applet) is greyed out.
> > > 'ifconfig wlan0' thinks there is:
> > > 
> > > [root at localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan0
> > > wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:02:6F:FC:3C
> > >           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> > > [root at localhost ~]#
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Also have 'giant nm-applet icon' (probably about 5 cm wide).
> > > 
> > > [running NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.3.svn2844.fc8 and friends]
> > 
> > I think this is the kernel's fault. 2.6.23-0.185.rc6.git7.fc8 works fine,
> > -0.187 doesn't. BZ at 301011.
> 
> FWIW, that kernel doesn't help. Still no wireless.

kernel-2.6.23-0.185.rc6.git7.fc8, NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.2.svn2833.fc8
(after today's update, might still be running an older one). Wireless is
working for some 10 hours right now.
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